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Yi Seong-keun is the president of Sungshin Women's University.

Born in 1963 in Yeongwol, Gangwon Province.

He graduated from Chuncheon High School and the Department of English Language and Literature at Korea University. He obtained a master's and doctoral degree in business administration and a doctoral degree in statistics from Korea University Graduate School.

After working as a researcher at Korea Nielsen, he served as the head of the marketing research team at SK Telecom.

He was a professor at Dongyang Technical College before moving to Sungshin Women's University as a professor in the Department of Business Administration in 2004.

In 2022, he was appointed as the president of Sungshin Women's University.

He established an annual cultural school for culturally and educationally marginalized children and youth in his hometown of Yeongwol, Gangwon Province, and operated curriculum-based and experiential education programs.

He is actively working to restore the university's tarnished image due to the embezzlement scandal of former president Sim Hwa-jin, controversies surrounding the preferential treatment of disabilities and unfair grade inflation of the child of lawmaker Na Kyung-won, and the crisis of exclusion from general financial support universities, as well as seeking solutions to the university's financial difficulties.